The Sun. — London, England, 1864-11-01 00:00:00

MARKET MO 1? AND COMZIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, Two o'CLocz. As usual on the Ist November, the transfer books at the Bank being shut, the Stock Exchange is closed. There is a moderate demand for discount accom modation to-day; the supply of money is very large, and brokers are more inclined to negotiate beet bills of three months' date, at 81, per cent. About £27,000 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday, but 20,000 sovereigns were withdrawn for the West Indies. The Magdalena from the Brazils has arrived at Lisbon en route to this country with £13,059. The bar silver by the last West India packet has been sold at ss. 6/d. per ounce for Amsterdam, showing a rise of The directors of the International Land Credit Company have made a call of ;2 per share, payable at the London and Wlstminster Bank, or at the Barque de Credit Foncier et Industriel, Brussels, on Monday, Nov. 28. The appointment of Mr Turquand as liquidator of the Leeds Banking Company (which was made provisionally by the Vice-Chancellor during the vacation) has been confirmed by the Court. The committee of the Stock Exchange have ap )ointed Friday, Nov. 4, a special settling day in he shares of the following companies :—Metropa. itan 11,5,ilway New Shares to be marked ; Flint. hire Oil and Cannel Company, for transactions only entered into on and after the 7th August, not o be marked at present; the Worcester Engine works, for transactions entered into on and after he 11th June, not to be marked; and Holcomb and ; $ O., sack contractors, for transactions entered into n and after the 16th July, no quotation asked for. During the last few days there has been rather ?ss activity exhibited in the Foreign and Colonial 'reduce Markets. Sugars, however, have main. tined former rates, while a fair business has been one in con) at fuli prices. Tea has remained in ioderate request at steady prices, while cocoa, rice, rid fruit has in same instances sold at slightly re uced rates. Tallow has been in more request for oth present and forward delivery, at fully previous notations. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. YESTERDAY. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. per Cent. Consols Do Account, Nov. 12 ............ 591 per Cent. Reduced .................. 87i ew 3 per Cent .. . .............. 87A ew 2i per Ce n t. J an. 1891 Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 nnuines, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — M. :chequer Bills £l,OOO, 4 &31 per Cent. 4 3 d arch ia June. Do ' £soo Do £lOO and £2OO ;nk England Stk, 6/ per Ct. Do Account.. INDIAN GOVERN'S:ENT SECURITIES. lia Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 - Do Account Do 6 per Cent. July, 1670 .... Do 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do Certificates Do Account Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) — Do 41 pei Cent. Do Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do 55 per Cent., May, 1879 Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 Ve Bonds£l.ooo Do under £l,OOO ........... FOREIGN FUNDS —CLOSING PRICES. istrian Bends, 5 per Cent — azilian 5 per Cent. Do 4} per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do ,1863 824 .enos Ayres 6 per. Cent Jo Account.... - ilian 6 per Cent. )o 41 per Cent lombian 6 per Cent ba, 6 per Cent. )o 5 per Cent. 1864 wish 3 per Cent., 1825 )o 5 per Cent, 1864 uador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — )o, Provisonal Land Warrant. vptian 7 per Cent 951 6 )0, Second Issue )o £lOO Bonds iek 5 per Cont., 1824-5, ox-Coupons.. )o Account )o Coupons /e Account .atemala 5 per Cent 10 1839 and 1859 jail 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway ) 70/ xican 3 per Cout )o Account • 274 7 Do 1864 )o 6 per Cent. Anglo-French )itto Scrip, £33 paid.... — dis /0 French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — dis x d orish Imperial 5 por Cent . w Granada 2 per Cent. io Deferred to Land Warrants (Ilectates) .. )0 Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861.. Do do Aug., 1866.... avian 41 per Cent .. lo 3 per Cent. (Uribarren).. Po 44 per Cent., 1862 o Account.... tugueso 3 per Cent., 1853 , o Account • • o 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 461 '0 Account ;sisn 5 per Cent 1522, £ St., '0 45 per Cent., 1850 • • 1860 io 3 per Cent 1859 5l 'o 6 per Cent, 1862 lo Anglo-Dutch o Scrip, £55 paid dinian 5 per Cen t o Account nigh 3 per Cent o Account 474 '0 New Deferred o Account o Passive o Account 31 i aish Cert. of Coup not funded o Account.,.... dish, 4 per Ceni ................... o Scrip, £6O paid .................. pui kWI 6 per C en t. 1854 .............. 89 0 ACCOUta ..................... . • . 'o 6 per Cent. 1858 ................ O A ccount ........................ 691 'oZIOO Bonds .................... o 6 per Cent, 1862 ................ 72 11 o Account .. 714 8 o £lOO Bonds .................... 72 it o .............. o Guaranteed, 4 per lB63 Cent.. ... 0 1863 Scrip, £4O paid - ez.uela 3 per Cont. Account o G pe r Cent., 1862 o A ccoun t .... 55 3 o 6 pe r Cent., 1861 Dividends on the above payable in London trian, 6 per Cont.. Ex. 10 Fl or i ns. ;ian 45 per Cent., E x. 25f. 99 311 21 per Cent., E x . 12 G u i l o 4 por Cent. Certificates ..., . aoh Rentes, 2 par Cent — itiar, Sk 1 100 iteck stook 20 stock 10 stook a took stock stock stook stook stock itook stock stock Stook TWO 0 O'CLOCK. sole, Money.. o Account .ORD ELCFIO ON THE RELATIONS OF VOLUNTEER ICEIIEI AND PRIVATES. —Lord Mello has ad sed the following letter to the editor of the Badding 'tire Courier :—" Amisfield, Oct. 25.—Sir,—In. the 'clutoon Courier of Friday last reference is made to the of • your having been precluded from dining at the era' mess of the East-Lothian Rifle Volunteers, on the skin of the inspection of the regiment, in consequence of r having appeared there in the uniform cf a private he corps, Having myself had the honour of dining he mess on the occasion referred to, and having at time heart of the circumstance of your exclusion, I etted then, as I regret now, that the rulas of the era' mess exclude privates of the corps in uniform. object, howeeer, in now writing is not to find fault with s laid down by gentlemen by whom I have been hospi y entertained, but to express the strong opinion I hold in the volunteer service an officers' mess is a mistake. cuipily, ltura allll social g ra d es, from dukes to mechanics and abourers, are to be found in our ranks, but a nteer'e position in the force does not depend on his poei in society. There are men serving in the ranks who iocially the equals, in. many cases oven the superiors, in on and wealth of the officers under whom they serve. ~n on duty, the strictest discipline is maintained by nteers, and privates, no matter what their social posi may be, always pay ready obedience to those placed in ,ortty over them. But when off duty, W h en m i x i ng illy together, military distinctions should be at an end; iniform of the private should not be barred w that le of fi cer is free. Such at least, I venture tore Lid be the rule of the service so far as regards our social •course, and such generally I believe it to be. The Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry have a mess, at which I have been hospitably entertained; but, if I am not aken, it is not an ' officers' mess.' And in the interests la li:eat Lothian Rifle Volunteers, whose well-being I ?• much at h-art, I would gladly tree every member of corps who chooses to pay for hie dinner free to dine at 6C3:, ELCUO," EH, TB, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOLS. iharel Railways. pail ( Closing Business Prioe. done. Bir., Wol., and Str. Val, Blythe and Tyne. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A A gets no clly I Do. B till Bpo.p an.has been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western.! Great Eastern, Ord. stkf 83 85 127 i 128 k 85 127 j 8i 51 6} 31 33 16 17 92 01 107 109 451 461 452 I. I 6 Ditto A stick Ditto EastAnglian st GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock 6j 71 ;3! 13t 149 150 129 131 8) 91 75}71 118 9 f Do 13 do Gt. S. and W. of Trelandl 'Great Westerr,Original 76} 6 7 6; Do Str Val eila. ei—tcxla I - Do. South Wales .... Do. West Alid. -Uatord Do Newport Do Hereford Lancashire & Yorkshire London and 131aekwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western l Lon. & So•.th Western! Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do shares... Metropolitan Midland 54 65 39 42 91 101 114} 114 k 66 67 103 105 37 39 1151 116 95 97 65 66 112, /13 133 133 ; 103 106 Do Birming. Derby Nfld. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 4 shares — Mid Kent ....• North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwio Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle Do. Stock. & Darling Do do 1855-58 Do do 18t,.61 ,North London Do New . Do New, 18M. North Staffordshire N. and S. IV. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Soot. Mid, stock Shrews, and Welchpoo! i Shropshire Union .• 1 South Devon ! South Eastern Staines, Wok., and Wok Taff Vale vale of Do C Neath .......... Waterford & Kilkenn) West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Ilar.&R j 52i 63i 243 156 LOS s(9 es e 7.. 96 F7i 36 37 96106, 76 8t 118 123 1 16 p 766 77; 10 111 131 133 66 68 16 28 831 84 8 9 155 160 31 41 98 103 65 i 41 40 115 k 16} lt 17 161 17 97 112 k 13 134 5 105 41 1091 9 10 67f 97iS 361 32 31 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Railways Mantic & St Lawreno , m orn.,Barodaa.Cent In. Gu. 5 Der °cut. . Do. P. 5hare5......... iufialo and LaKe Huron Do. Preference , luffalo,Brant,&Godricl. ; p. ot. bds. Aug. 1, 187_ Do. do. July 1, 187. )0. do. June 1, 187. leutta...lt,S.Eastn. (Lint 'apeTown & Dock Seri 1 Demerara 7 p.c. per. pf ft:amtn. Bengal gu. 5 p. h;ast Indian. au. 5 p. c Do. do. J Ext 1 rand Trunk of Cana , Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 per cent Do. Ist rrei. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 3d Pi ef. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stook Do. do. deferred J t. In diarenin.gua.sp.c Do. Gu 3. 5 per cent Do. New qua. 5 p. o It. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. Do. 4/ per cent Do it. W. oi Canada Share,. Do. New ... no. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt Do. 54 p. o. do. '77-8 Indian Branch Limited Iladras guar., 5 p. o. Do. 4/ p. o. Extensiw , Do. 44 do Do. Fifth Extension ielb.Corp. 6 p. o. Bnct- Ilelb. & Hobson's Bay. iewilrunswioli a Cand. Class A and B. t. itl.C' da6 po Ist f bd' Soinde t)o. Delhi Do. do. .....• 4/: Do. Punjaub e Do. Indue.St. Flo 4 j 6"‘ (JO VElt. Itritiola Columbia, A pm cent., Dec. 3i, 1872.... Do. do. 1883.... :tn.uov.6 p.c.Ja. 1877-81 Do. 6p. a Feb. Auc Do. 6 p. c. Mar. & Sept Do. t p. o. Jan.&,July. Do. is lnscribed stoci ape G.Hope, 6p 0,187: Do.Ap 1881 Do. 1881 to. Jan. & July. 1891.. 'eylon, Nov.lFtii, 6 p LJO. 1878, do. lauritius 6 p.cent.lB73 Do. 1878 Do. iBB2 \ratal Goy. 6 per cont.. Y. 13 . 6436 .6p.c.Ja.dr,Ju1 ) S.W. Goy. 5 p x.,18.: Du. 5 p. c.,lBii to Ib - ie Do. d0.,1888 upwd, iew Zealand 6 p cent `lova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c Eterling , 1875. 4ueensland Gcv. 6 p. c. Aus Gov. 6 p.0.1f 68- Da. 1.70 6; N. ward 4... tric.GOV. 6 p.c. Ja.6tJul) Da lo p.c. Ao.dzOct.. all 100 (100 100 2 ' LlOO 100 100 100 100 100 100 Paid. MbLV Closing Prioe. 54 56 104 [C2t id's i p 4i 5 7 8 96 98 94 96 93 98 80 85 78 81 104 106 104 106 111 5 107 107 10) 102 105 U 9 112 102 105 (01 107 06 108 102 IC4 93 90 97 99 95 97 84 88 100 101 95 100 8) 91 102 103 102 .113 19 20 83 92 67 70 59 61 63 65 55 57 51 53 46 50 28 30 26 '4B 102 103 pr tip pr ip 99 100 9 94 114 1V 90 92 77 81 100 101 93 95 88 90 1021 i 3 8 0 I 6 1 80 83 1001 100/ 1 100 101 id 10J 101 it) V 5 97 1002 1 I SEC UMTIES. 97i 97 83 3 BRITISI: larnbriam Consol. Gola IChiverton milord Amalgamated. )evon G. Cone. (Tavist Drakewal's...... Itatinettgllogau ) s:aFt Caradon ..... ..... -:ast earn Brea... East Grenville ......... East Lovell . ..... Russel (Tavistk. hm..i&St.Aubyn(Gwen Great Laxey, Treat 6outu I. Wheal Vor (Relator irenville.. I emd . s-Foot iingston Downs Margaret (Gay Lelarn larke Valley.. .lyndy Iron Ore (Lim. New bet . dn . 4 orth Downs North Roskear.. liaseet (I llogal. 4orth Wheal Crotty . Prosper United....,.„„ •rovidenee (Uny Lelui. south Uaradon(St.Cleei '.Wheal Fra.n.(lllozan stray Park Cin Crolt Nest Basset (111ozan) , V Cr radon ILiskeard West Chiver 'on West Sewn ••• Wheal Basset (Mogan Wheal 13 uller(Itedruth, Wheal Luck° tt ...... heal Al ar yAnn igen Wheal Beton . . »Meal Trelawney (Lis Wheal Union 4 4i 7 9 4 4i 11 2r. 24 6 (0 70 17 19 1i 2 2i 2 33 31 2 36 3i 520 540 33 36 18 20 15 16 8 g 5 6 55 60 200 210 90 93 12 14 1 15 17 200 205 'lO 21 3.5. t• 8 583 Great Eastern, E. PREFERENCE C., Norfolk 6 per cent.SH ARES. Ext., Great • orthern, 4j per cent., red. at 10 per cent Ditto, 5 per cent., redeemable at 5 per cent., Great Western Orig. 44 per cent pf., 97 Gt. Western, Wt. Midland, Oxford 2d guaranteed stock, 115 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 5 per cent. pf., Ditto, new per cent pf., 91 Great Northern, 5 per cent., irred., 108 London, Brighton, &c., 44 per cent., lesB, i 8 London, Chatham, Jzo., Metrop. Ext., B 6 per cent., 931 '46, 101 • pm., - , 105 i 0 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. East Lincoln, gua. 6 per cent.. 132} Northern and Eastern 5 per cent., 53 FORE] UN RAIL WAYS. Dutch Rhenish, 19} 20 Great Luxembourg, 11} San Paulo (lim.), ga. 7 per cent., Ditto (all), IN South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, WI BANKS. Alliance (Urn.), 341 A 4 4 4 5$ 41 Ditto, new, issued at 20 pm., 181 19 Anglo Austrian, .1 Australasia, 69: British and Californian, Bin., 44 Chartered Bank of India, AdMalta, and China, 324 2 City, 110 4 114 Consolidated Bank, Um., 10 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 191 20 European Bank, lim., 91 11 Imperial Bank (lim.). 31 Imperial Ottoman, 151 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 41 London Bank of Mexico and S. America. lim., London Chartered Bank of Australia, 231 London anu County, 71 London Joint Stock, Ditto, new, 11/ London and %1 estminster, 941 f Mercantile and Exchange, Um., 9 4 National Provincial:of England, Ditto, new, 42 Ditto, ditto. 381 New South Wales, 42 11 Oriental Bank Corporation, 531 South Australia, So MISCELLANEOUS. City of London Real Property, lira., $ 11 City Offices, lira., 2 Ebbw Vale, 45a Egyptian Com, and Trading, lim., Financial Corporation, 1 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lira., 81 Hudson's Bay, 161 16 Imperi.l Mercantile Credit Am., lira., (I it International Financial .tociety, lira., Joint Stock Discount, lira., 2: London Financial Association, lira., 22 London General Omnibus Company, 2: National Di,count Company, lim., 1.:5: 4 11 Peninsula and Oriental S itaui, 3 Ithyinney Iron, 271 Royal 51aii Steam, 861 5 Thames and M....rsey Marine (Insurance), lira., 6/ Universal Insurance, Lint. , 5i 6 ILK 8 4 i5iii Business don, 55 102 li 2 101 i 19 96 93 l 0) 102 LOB 108 Ofi 1056 5i I y 9 gq 51 9 Si 680 600 1051 i MD 2.1.0. 1.14. t 3.4.0 2.7.0. 2.13.6. , Lt. 78 0.13 4.18. i 21 e :3.1. 29 .6 2.8 0 7.1.5. to 6.7 ts.fru 30.17.. rHE SUN, bONfION, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 1864. LAW IN' This Day. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. Mr Commissioner Holroyd resumed his sittings after the vacation, but was occupied during the morning in hearing applications in the private room. The list was very light. Mr Registrar Winslow also sat as commissioner, but was occupied the whole of the morning at a private examina tion. RE COLONEL WAUGH. This case will be heard on Thursday, not Wednesday, as before stated. Mr Commissioner Goulburn will not sit till Thursday. SHERIFFS' COURT. (Bofors Mr Commissioner Kerr.) CAN A WOMAN MARRY lIER FIRST HUSBANDS HALF• liiioTllElt ?-13UDDEN V. ENGLISII. In this case plaintiff sued a Mrs E!iz Lbeth English for rent, and when the case was called on the &fondant stopped into the box. His Honour—How do you make out this case, plaintiff? Plaintiff—She occupied rooms in my house, and has not paid the whole rent. Dafend,tnt—l am a married woman. Plaintiff—No, she is not, She has married two brothers, and therefore the second marriage is void. His Honour—That wobild be so, Mrs English. You see that, by the English law, you are forbiddea to marry your first husband's brother. Defendant—l was lawfully and regularly married to him, Plaintiff—Were you married to him abroad ? Defendant—Oh, dear no. We were married in Eng land. Plaintff—Then your marriage is not recognised hero. Defendant—My second husband was not exactly my first husband's brother, but more Lko a brother in-law. (Laughter.) His Honour—Well, perhaps there might not be so much objection to that. Plaintiff—But the husbands were not brothers-in-law. As I am informed, they were of the same name and brothers. His Honour—Well, let us see. Now, Mrs English, what was the name of your first husband P Defendant—Robert Hall Engli,h, and he died in 1850, His Honour—And what was the name of the second husband ? Defendant—James English. I married him in June, 1863. His Honour—Well, were they brothers ? Defendant—No, they were like brothers-in-law. His Honour—How was that ? Defendant—Old Mr English, the father, was twice mar ried, and his first wife bore him my first husband, his second wife my second husband. This answer caused no little surprise, calculation, and argument in court. His Honour—Then you see, Mrs English, that you have _married two half-brothers, Defendant—Yes, I think that is it. His Honour (considering)—Well, I do not know, no, I do not think it will do, Mrs English ; but it really is a very nice question in common law. The question will be, " Cau a woman marry her husband's half-brother ?" In my opinion it is prohibited. It seems very hard, Mrs English, but I am afraid you cannot set up your marriage as a defence to the action. Defendant—l had no idea that the marriage was not a good one. A young man here stepped forward, and said he was the son of the old gentleman, known as the second husband. He complained of the manner in which the plaintiff had gone on with the case, and with some little warmth of temper, said that the old gentleman had never been seen; and yet plaintiff had the blushing effrontery to come for ward and say he had promised to pay the money. His Honour—So far as the case has gone I have nothing to do with the old gentleman at all ; the only matter for me to consider is whether defendant is married, and if such marriage is a good one. I do not think that in law a woman can marry her first husband's half brother, ani so I am bound to decide that defendant cannot plead her marriage. However, as it does seem to be a hard case upon Mrs Eng lish, who might have fancied it was a good marriage, I will let the case stand over so that the parties may come to some arrangement about the payment. Verdict for the plaintiff. THE SHERIFFS OF LONDON AND MIDDLESEX.-- The ancient ceremony of cutting faggots, chopping sticks, with a bill-hook and chopper, and counting horseshoes and nails, as suit and service to the Crown for the right and pri vilege of the City of London to choose the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, took place yesterday morning before Mr W. H. Walton, the Queen's Remembranoer and Senior Master of the Court of Exchequer, at the Queen's Remem brancer's-office, Chancery-lane, with all the usual cere monies, Until within the last three or four years the eeremony used to be carried out with all due civic pomp and grandeur on the occasion of the Sheriffs of London and Sheriff of Middlesex proceeding in State to Westmin• ster-hall on the 30th of October, when they were pre sented in due form by the Recorder to the then Cursitor Baron, the late Right lion. Mr Bankes, in the Court of Exchequer, for the approval of the Crown. On those occa sions the court was always crowded. Some years ago, when great reforms in law took place, and a number of patent offices were abolished, the Cursitor Baron was made to cease on the death of Mr Banker, When that event took place the duty fell on the Barons of the Exchequer, but that being found most inconvenient a short Act of Parliament was passed to do away with the cere mony of presentation, but reserving all the other ancient ceremonies, appointing the barons or their chief officer, the Queen's Remembrancer, to see the ceremony performed. Accordingly, yesterday morning the City solicitor, as repre senting the corporation, Mr: Davison, the senior under sheriff, as representing the Sheriff of Middlesex, and Mr J. K. Potter, the Secondary, 'as repiesenting the Sheriffs of London, attended at Queen's Remembrancer's-office, when the usher of the court made the usual proclamations, and the ceremony of cutting faggots and chopping sticks was performed as suit and service for a piece of land called the Moor, in Salop, and containing six horseshoes and 6l nails as suit and service for a place called the Forge, in the parish of St. Clement Dane. ,The usual warrants of attor ney to account having been filed and recorded, the cere mony terminated. LIVERPOOL, Oct. 31.—FEDERAL CRUISERS AND BLOCKADE RUNNERS.—The Bat steamer, from this, port, with machinery, was captured off Wilmington October 10 by the Federal steamer Montgomery; one of the crew was wounded and afterwards died. She arrived at Boston in charge of a priz3 crew on the 17th. A blockade•running paddle steamer, withsmoke stacks, two masts, was sunk by the blockading vessels off Charleston on the sth of October, while trying to run in by the inner channel. Her mast and smoke stacks were visible, but her hull was entirely submerged. She was sunk at a point off Long Island out of reach of the Confederate batteries, and it was probable that she might be raised and portions of her cargo saved. The Confederate steamer Florida was reported off Salt Key Banks steering towards Havannah. MR E. H. KNATCHBULL-HIMESSEN, M.P., AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.—Mr E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen, M.P., addressed a meeting of his constituents, in accordance with an annual custom, at Deal, on Friday evening. The meeting took place in the Town Hall, which was well filled with electors, and the chair was occupied by Mr George Hughes. The hon gentleman spcke at some length on the various topics of the day; and at the close of his address a vote of renewed confidence in him was passed, GENERAL TODLEBEN.—GeneraI Todleben and other officers in the Russian set vice visited Woolwich yes terday morning, and were received at the dockyard by Com modore Superintendent Hugh Dunlop, C.B. At 11 o'clock the party embarked on board the Admiralty steam-vessel Vivid, Staff-Commander Allen, which proceeded down the river to Long-reach, passing the immense works now in progress for the southern metropolitan sewage outfall, and the scene of the recent gunpowder explosion at Erith. The Vivid returned to Woolwich at 12 o'clock, an intended voyage to Shoeburyness, for the purpose of witnessing gun nery experiments, being, it is stated, postponed. After lauding at the jetty the general and party, accompanied by Major-General Warde, C.B , paid a second visit to the Royal Arsenal, and returned to London about 2 o'clock. DETENTION OF THE ROYAL TRAIN.—About 2 o'clock a.m. on Saturday a goods train from War rington, while travelling on the up line near to Minshull Vernon, was thrown off the rails by a valuable horse stray ing on the line. The animal had been grazing in a field ; and our informant, who visited the place, says that a gate, regularly fastened with a chain round it, had been lifted off its hinges and thrown into the field. It would have been a work of great difficulty to have thrown it on the line. The animal had passed through the gate. The Royal train, containing her Majesty, was detained nearly an hour in consequence. The line was blocked several hours, two or three carriages having been pitched clean over. This matter calls for strict inquiry, as it must have been no easy matter to raise the gate off its hinges.—llfanchesier Courier. TBAGIC OCCURRENCE AT WETMOUTH.—E2rIy yesterday morning the inmates of the residence of Captain Dow, of Rodwell, Weymouth, were startled by the cries of " Murder " proceeding from the upper part of the rear of the house. Upon hastening to one of the servant's rooms it was discovered she was greatly excited, and said that a man had just escaped from the window who had pounced upon her whilst asleep and nearly strangled her. Upon search being made, a ladder, which had been removed from a house undergoing repair a short distance off, was found raised against the bedroom window, and it was no doubt by this means that the man gained access to the room, Marks of violence were found on the neck of the girl, and the house was in a state of a'arm till daybreak, soon after which it was discovered that the man who had entered the house was lying dead at the bottom of one of the Weymouth and Portland Rlilway cuttings near the back of the house. He was a marine named Henry Stokes, belonging to her Majesty's ship Black Prince, and in his flight had evidently fallen down the cutting, which is hewn out of stone, and was killed. Footmarks which correspond with deceased's boots were visible from the ladder to the cutting. An inquest was held, when a verdict in accord ance with the facts was recorded, POLICE IN I,—.Tbis day. MANSION-HOUSE. EXTENSIVE FRAIM.—Danom Maclean Wright, a re spectably dressed man, was placed at the bar, before Mr Alderman Stone, charged with endeavouring to obtain, by false representations and fraudulent pretences, a quantity of wine, and also with forging and uttering account bills of exchange to the amount of £2,500. Mr Sleigh, who attended on the part of the prosecution, said the prisoner was charged with one De Witt, who has been under remand, with conspiring to obtain a large quan tity of wines from Messrs Garcia, Rubet, and Co., by false pretences, and whose name, for obvious reasons, he had not before mentioned in connection with the charge, was apprehended by Sergeant Spittal, who, after some exertion, had traced him from Liverpool to London. He should not trouble the alderman with much evidence, but merely call Spittal who, when apprehending the prisoner, told him the chary, when ho replied that he intended to plead guilty, and that he should do all in Lis power to obtain a complete restitution of the property. Ho should then ask that the prisoner be remanded until to-morrow, when he could be brought up in company and be examined with De Witt. Sergeant Spittal said he traced the prisoner from Liver pool to London, and last night he apprehended him in the neighbourhood of Bayswater. When he told him the charge against him, ho said he should plead guilty, and gave every facility towards recovering the property. Alderman Stone at once remanded the prisoner until to morrow. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. COMMITTAL WITHOUT A FINE FOR AN UNFROVOKED ASSAULT. —Marie Debifle, a notorious French prostitute, who has several times figured at this court, sometimes as complainant and sometimes as defendant, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with committing the following assault upon Melchior Blaise, a tanner, residing in Earl's court, Cranbourn-street, Leicester-square. The complainant said he was passing down Regent-street last night on his way home, and when at the corner of Air street he saw a female either intoxicated or in a fit. Ho and a constable tried to get her into a cab that she might be taken home, and while doing so a person came up and asked what was the matter. He replied in French, " Only a drunken prostitute that seems to want to be locked up." At this time there were several French women in the road, and prisoner said he was a very bad man, and made a vile imputation against him. He walked away, and when he got about half• way down the Quadrant the prisoner, who had followed him, gave him a violent blow in the face, and he believed she had something in her hand at the time, as his face was cut, and another woman seized his stick which he walked with, being a little paralysed. The prisoner then run away, but he followed her as well as ho could and gave her into custody. In answer to Mr Tyrwhitt, the complainant said that the prisoner knew who he was, because he was once a witness against her bully for stealing a watch, when he got four years' imprisonment, Thomas Goddard, 302 A, said that observing the prisoner running, and thinking she had committed a robbery, he pursued her, and after a smart run caught her. The com plainant then came up with his face bleeding, and stated that the prisoner had assaulted him, and he then took the prisoner into custody. The prisoner said she thought it was the complainant running after her and not the constable, and that was why she ran. Mr Tyrwhitt said the prisoner was well known as one of the worst women in the metropolis, and that she well knew what she had imputed to the complainant. He should com mit her for a month with hard labour. The prisoner is one of a number of foreign prostitutes who nightly frequent Regent-street, and whose conduct, not withstanding the exertions of the police, is much com plained of. WESTMINSTER. DESPERATE ATTACK UPON A FOREIGNER.--MArtill Shelby, a rough boy, was charged with violently assaulting and wounding a poor Spaniard named Francesco Reach. The prosecutor was dreadfully disfigured in the face, and he wore a large bandage round his head, which was severely wounded. He gave his evidence through the medium of an interpreter. Prosecutor's statement was to the following effect :—On the night before last he was at the Harp of Erin beer-shop in the Broadway, Westminster, when he was suddenly at tacked by the prisoner and some others with him. Prosecu tor was at supper at the time, and some mistake arose about the beer he was drinking, and then the prisoner struck him a violent blow on the head with a pair of tongs, and he was at the samo time attacked by the companions of the pri soner, one of whom cut his eye open with a quart pot. Mr. Selfe—Ho w many blows were you struck ? Prosecutor's reply was—l can't say how many, because I lost my senses. Prisoner said that the Spaniard was excited, and seized him, at the same time brandishing a knife. a foot long, and that that was how the disturbanee began. The prosecutor was questioned and positively denied the assertions of the prisoner. He declared as before that ho was quietly eating his supper when they fell upon him. A police-constable, who understands Spanish, said that he was conversing with the prosecutor a few minutes before the occurrence in question, at the Harp of Erin. He was at the time perfectly sober and quiet. Witness had known him a long while, and he was a very harmless well-con ducted man. Mr Selfe adjourned the further hearing of the case for the attendance of some witnesses who were absent. THAMES, A NOISY FARE.—SINGULAR CASE.—Mrs Clitheroe, who descriLed herself as a" respectable married woman," was brought before Mr Partridge, charged with being drunk and disorderly, and refusing to pay a cab fare. George Brown, a cab driver, stated that a little before 6 last night he was hired by the prisoner opposite the George publichouse in the Co m mercial-road, and ordered to drive her to No. 6, Calvert-street, Mile-end• road. Soon after she got into the cab, and while he was driving through Stepney, she began shouting, swearing, and hallooing. He should not have said much about that if she had not called him a vagabond, a thief, and a villain. Ile begged of her to be quiet, but she would not, and a mob collected. He stopped the cab, and she gave utterance to another volley of abuse. He then gave her into custody. John Mac kay, 414 K, said he took the prisoner into custody. She called him a thief and a blackguard, and used very foul language. The prisoner —I am a respectable married woman. Inspector Griffin, K division—She is a married woman, but not respectable. Prisoner —I am respectable. Inspector Griffin —You aro not respectable. You have been locked prisoner said herbeferefo lirbueBibi wasnagndrunk the an offi d eerof a disorderly. The ship, and she expected him home. Yesterday she went to Victoria Dock t o meet him. The ship did not arrive. on b met with a female who stole the interior of a valuable brooch and a white handkerchief, and who invited her to drink. Mr Partridg e —H aw oamo strange woman ? you to be dri : :ti The prisoner —I don't know sir. I know it was wrong. Here is the ri mof the b rooc h . Th e i ns id e i s gone. I had a shilling to pay th e cab fare, me station-hou se. and the driver drove eto have been robbed i t is your own fault. Your conduct was ge--You were drunk and noisy, and if you not r r es P p a e r c t t r a i b d le, but very disorderly. I fine you 100, and in default of payment, seven days' imprisonment. T DsmghaE aornNwdl IdeS something C o A f l le t ßt h iY e VS° : llP n e r and Middle Temple for the annual rTeli p Ealt ra tj t M io B ns lN are Tri b E ein T g Eld m P a i d E e i G n A th a .; E:f chrysanthcmu ms, s much attention, an d which is justly regarded as marvellous in th e h eart of the metropolis. In a display whi c h a l wa y s com the Inner Temple there is a very beautiful row of the choicest flowers extending along the whole length of Paper ildimaginable colours and sizes, and u the ng manner . are arranged shows them off bisThey in are which of all they to the greatest possible advantage. On the opposite side of the gardens, by Harcourt. buildings, there is another row, but they do not show so well a s th ose on th e eas t ern side on account of the bui▪ lding operations which ere going on. But Mr Broome has reserved his finest specimens for the northern side of the garden, along the whole extent of which the beautiful flowers have been carefully covered in. They are all well developed and in excellent order, so that it may fairly be expected that the display of the present year will be equal to any of those which have preceded it. In the Middle Temple gardens Mr Dale has been equally successful up to the present tithe, and he has raised some very splendid specimens, which will be ready for publio inspection at the same time with those in the Inner Temple. The space whi▪ ch Mr Dale h as a t hi s comman d is not so large as that which Mr Broome has to work upon, but ho has turned what he has to the best advan tage, and both the gardeners may congratulate them selves upon what will certainly be, unless the weath3r should prove thoroughly unpropitious, a highly satisfac tory show. CLOSING OF PUBLIC - HOUSES IN LIVERPOOL.— ADOPTION OF THE NEW ACT.—The new Act of Parliament for closing public-houses between the hours of one and four in the morning was adopted yeserday by the Town Council of Liverpool, after a brief discussion. A memorial in favour of the adoption of the Act, and another from the Licensed Victuallers' Association asking that its adoption be deferred for six months, were read. Mr Clint, chairman of the Watch Committee, moved the adoption of the Act, which had, he said, been of great benefit to good order and morality in London. The motion was seconded by Mr J. Stitt, who said that upwards of 1,000 persons were convicted during the last six months of offences com mitted between the hours of one and four. Mr Bairstow (an hotelkeeper) said that the adoption of the Act would inflict great hardships upon dock labourers and others; but Mr Robinson (1 brewer) said that the keepers of " night houses" would alone be injured, Letter from the Vice• President of the Confederate States. The following letter from the Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, giving his views upon the peace move ment, was written in answer to a letter addresed to him by several of his fellow-citizens of Georgia : Crawfordsville, Ga., Sept. 22. Gentlemen,—You will please excuse me not answering your letter of the 16th instant sooner. I have been absent nearly a week on a visit to my brother at Sparata, who has been quite out of health for some time. Your letter I found here on my return home yesterday. The delay of my reply thus occasioned my regret. Without further explanation or apology, allow me now to say to you that no person living ern possibly feel a more ardent desire for en end to be put to this unnatural and merciless war upon honourable and just toms than I do. But I really do not see that it is in my power or yours, or that of any Lumber of persons in our positim, to inaugurate any movement that will evar tend to aid in bringing about a result that we and so many more desire. The movement by our leg slettu-e at its lest session, at the suneetion cf the executive, on this eubject, was by autho rity properly constituted for such a purpose. That movement, in my judgment, was timely, judicious, and in the right direction. Nor he 9it been without results, The orgerisation of that party in the Nor.h to which you refer may justly be claimed es a part of the fruits of it. These, it is to be hoped, will be followed by others of a more marks d character, if all in both sectior '3 who sincerely desire peace upon correct terms will give the movement thus inaugueated all the aid in their power. 'the resolutions of the Georgia Legislature, at its last session upon the subject of peace, in eny judgment embodied and set forth very clearly those principles upon which alone there can be permanent peace between the different sections of this extensive, once happy and prosperous, but now die. tracted count) y. Easy and perfect solutions to all present troubles, and those far more g.ievous ones which 'corn in prospect, and portentously threaten in the coming future, is nothing more than the simple recognition of the f'undamental principle and truth upon which all American constitutional libel ty is founded, and upon the maintenance of which alone it can be preserved—that is, the sovereignty, the ultimate abso lute sovereignty of the States. This doctrine our Legis lature announce—to the people at the North end to the world. It is the only key note to peace —permanent, lasting peace - consistent with the security of the public liberty. The old Confederation was formed upon this principle. The old Union was afterwards formed upon this principle. No league can ever be formed or maintained between any State, North or South, securing public liberty, upon any other principle. The whole framework of American institutions, which in so short a time had won the admiration of the world, and to which we were indebted for such an unparalleled career of prosperity and happiness was formed upon this principle. All our present troubles sprung from a departure from this principle, from a violation of this essential law of our poli tical organisation. In 1776 our ancestors, and the ancestors of those who are waging thia unholy crusade against U 9, together proc!aimed the gnat and eternal truth, for the maintenance of which they jointly pledged their lives, their Lrtunes, and their sacred honour,thatgovernments are instituted amongst men, deriving their just powers Lora the consent of the governed —and that whenever any form of government becomes de structive of those ends for which it was formed, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and institute a new goverment, laying its foundations on sues principles and organising its powers in such a form as to them may seem most likely to effect their safety end happiness. It is needless here to state that by " people," and "governed," in this annunciation, is meant communities and bodies of men capable of organising and maintaining a gove_nment, not individual members of society. The con sent of the governed refers to the will of the mass of the community or State in its organised form, and expressed through the legitimate end property constituted organs. It was upon this principle the colonists stood justified before the world i r effecting their separation from the mother counts y. It was upon this pi nciple that the original 13 co-equal end co. Sovereign States formed the Federal com pact of the old Union in 1787, It is upon the same principle that the present co-equal end co-sovereign State of ouc con federacy totaled their new compact of union. he idea 'hat the old Union, or any union between sove reign States, consistently with this fundamental truth, can be maintained by force, is preposterous. This war springs from an attempt to do this preposterous thing. Superior power may compel a xi-ion of some sort, but it would not be the union of the old constitution or of our new, The subjugation of the people of the South by the people of the North would necessarily involve the destr uction of the constitution and the overehrow cf their liberties as well as ones. The men or party at the North to whom you refer who favour le ace, mu,t be brought to a fu'l realisCion of this truth in all its beer:ngs, before their efforts will result in much practical good. Any peace growing out of a union of States established by force will ha r s ruinous to them as to us. The action of the Chicago convention, so for rs its plat form of principle goes, presents, as I have sftid, on another occasion, a ray of light which, tt Tier Providence, may prove the claw,' of the day to this long old cheerless night, the first ray of light I have seen from the Not tit since the war began. This cheers the heart, and towards it I could ulmost " Hail, holy light, offapriqg of heaven, first-born of the ete.atal co-ete..ial L 'am. May I express thee un blamed, since God is light." Indeed, I cou'd have quite so excfarnied, but for the sad reflection that whether it shall in:ng healing i a its beams or be lost in a dark and 0111'110113 eclipse ere its good work be done, depends so much upon 'he action of others who may of regard it and view it as I do. So at best it is but a ray, a small and tremulous ray, enou3h only to gladden the heart and quicken the hope. The imminent and 1, ading idea of 'hat conven ion seems to have been a desire to reach a peaceful adjustment of oar present difficulties and strafe through the medium of a con vention of the States. They proposed to suspend hostilities to see what can be done, if anything, by negotiations of some sort. This is one step in the right direction. To such a convention of the States I have no objection, as a peaceful confetence and interchange of views between equal end sovere4,a Powers, just as the convention of 1757 was called and assembled. The properly constitutel autholitie3 of Washington and RitshmoLd, tho du'y authorised represTn'at:ves or the two confoderacics of States now at wen w:th each other, might give their essent t ) such a proposition. Gaod might re salt .rom it. It would be en appeal on both sides from the sword to rea3on rld justice. All wars which do not result in the extinction and extermination of one side or the other must be ended sooner of later by some sort of negotiation. From the discussion or interchange of views in such a convention, the histoty as well as the title nature of our in stitutions, end the relation of the S .tes toward each other and towards the Federal head, would doubtless be much better inderstood, generally, then they nowt re; but I should faveur such a proposition only as a peace.ul confer ence, as 'he convention:of 1787 was. I should be opposed to leaving the questions at issue to ihe absolute decision of such a body. Delegates might be clothed si:th powers to consult and agree, if thy cou'd, upon some ph n of a ijastment, to be submitted for subsequent ratification by the sovereign State whom it tffected, I efore it should be obligatory or binding, and then binding only on such as should so ratify it. It becomes the people of the South, as well es the people of the North, to be quit.) as watch.al and jealous of their tighZs as their common ancestors were. The maintenance of liberty in all ages, times, and coun tries when and where it has existed, has required not only constant vigilance and jealousy, but it has often required the greatest privations, end sufferings, and sacrifices that people or States are ever subjected to. Through such an ordeal we are now passing. Through a !Hie and even severer ordeal our ancestors passed, in their struggle for the principles which it has devolved upon u 9 to defend and maintain. But great es our sufferings and sacrificze have been and are, to which you allude, they ere as yet far short of the like sufferings and sactifices which our fathers bore with patient), courage, and fortitude, in the c_isis that tried men's soul's in their day. These ere the virtues that sus tained them in their hour of need. Their i'lu - Zious end glorious example bids us not to under-estimate the priceless inhcni'ance they achieved for us at such a cost of treasure end blood. Great as are the odds we are stiuggl:ng egging, they are not greater thin those against which they successfully st aggled. In point of reverses our condition is not to be compared with theirs. Should Mobile, Savalnah, Charles ton, Augusta, Macon, Montgomery, and even Petersburg a-id Richmontrfell, our condition would not then be worse or less hopeful than theirs was in the darkest hour that rested on their fortunes. With wisdom on the part of those who control our destiny in the cabinet and in the field, in husbanding and properly wielding our resources at their command, end in securing the hcarts and affections of the people in the great cause of right and liberty for which we are struggling, we could suffer all these losses and calamities, and greater even, and still triumph in the end. At present, however, I do not see, as I stated in the outset, that you or I or any number of persons in our posi tion, can do anything toward inaugurating any new move sent looking to a peaceful solution of the present strife. The war on our part is fairly and entirely defensive in its character. How long it will continue to be thus wickedly and mercilessly waged against us depends upon the people of the North. Georgia, our own State, to whom we owe allegiance, has with great unanimity proclaimed the principles upon which a just and permanent peace ought to be sought and ob tained. The Congress of the Confederate States has fol lowed with an indorsement of these principles. All you and I, and others in your position therefore can do on that line at this time is to fustain the movement already in augurated, and to the utmost of our ability to hold up these principles as the surest hope of restoring soundness to the public mind of the North, as the bre z 3n serpent was held up for the healing of Israel in the wilderness. The chief aid and encouragement we can give the peace party at the North is to keep before them these great - - fundamental principles and truths, which alone will lead them and us to permanent and lasting peace, with posses sion and enjoyment of constitutional liberty. With these principles once recognised, the future would take care of itself, and there would be no more war so long as they should be adhered to. All questions of boundaries, confederacies, and Union or Unions, would naturally and easily adjust themselves, ac cording to the interest cf parties end the exigencies of the times. Herein lies the true law of the balance of power and the harmony of States.—Yours respectfully. • ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS. The Falls of Niagara, (Pion the Index.) Passing by a suspension bridge which cornetts Goat Island with the mainland, wo walked to the lowest coiner of the isle, end stood at once upon the brink of the precipice down which thunders the American Fall, No scene that I have ever NI itnessed overwhelmed me with such uneon• trolablo wonder as that which I looked upon as I stood on the margin cf the plunge of the mighty cataract. The height, the power and volume of the falls exceeded my utmost ex pectations. I had been 'old that I should be disappointed; but if there be any who have been, I cannot conceive what their imagination could have anticipated. low a I expected more noise, hut the sta`e of the atmosphere affects that, and the roar of the falls (like that of Bottom end Earl Russell) will at one time be e 9 paltry and insignificant as at another it will ba grand end terrifying. I should like to have the power to give you acme idea of the sublimity of the scene, but it is utterly useless to attempt a description of what is wholly indescribable. The tortuous surgings of the rapids, the sudden calmness at the brow of the cataract, the majestic sea-green curve in which the liquid mass glides over the edge of the precipice, the silver ringlets into which it is broken up eoon after leaving the brink of the rock,tho feathery mist in which it showers down into the cloud of spray that ever veils the lest 50 feet of the Feel, and the infernal writhe and whiteness in which it reappears in the depths of the abyss, all these wondrous features of the Queen of Cataracts must be seen, watched, sat beside for hours and days, before the mind can grasp the magnificence of the scene. But we were as yet only in sight of the Ame rican Fall. A walk along the further side of Goat Island brought us in aiew of the Canadian Fail, and then I found that I had been spending my fullest admiration and asto nishment upon a mere thread of Niagara, the thousandth part of its volume and grandeur, for there was before me again the same glorious scene that I have so briefly sketched —only it was a thousand times intensified. We ascended and took a view from every one of the numerous points from which tourists are expected to au-. vey the Falls, end paid all those preposterous sums which tourists are invariably doomed to give —for Niagara has its excursionists by thousands, and its 'look-outs,' 'summer houses," retreats," staircases," perilous seats,' and such attractions for an excursion party ; but it is le-s coclneyfied, for all that, than many a place that I have visited—less so than Chamouni and Righi, and such favou-ite resorts that do not draw half so many visitors as the Falls. Having done our duty as pure excursionists, and been bled accord.. ingly, we took a carriage end drove off to the Canadian side of the river, crossing by the flina,u suspension !midge which conncc's the British and America n territories. his an extraordinary triumph of et:ll : line-W.lg skill to have thrown across the yawning gulf such a mass of weighty metal as here spans the torrent. How it ever got there is to my mind a dark inexplicable mystery, of which 1 Pm not mathematician or engineer enough to see the solution; but there it is to testify, in conjunction with the tubu'ar bridge of Montreal and the canals of the St. Lawrence, to the in genuity and enterprise of the people of Ceneda. The b.idge is two miles below the Fal's, so that the view thence is too distant to be cif, ciive ; but the drive up Ca them along the Canadian cliff, past ' The Cliftan House,' the great Canadian hotel, is, I think, the most beauti Sul road I have ever s , en. It is from this side that you get in one grand comprehensive landscape the whole length of the American end Canadian Falls, with the steep precipices of Goat Island between them, and the cliffs of the American bank iuither down the gorge, and above them the roofs, end spires, and gables of the town, peering out from amid the forest that forms the heckground of the picture. Table Rock is a lofty shelvieg promontory of limestone jutting out from the Canadian shore close upon the blink of the plunge of the great Horse-shoe Fall; and there we sat, as ell tourists do, and g. zed in rapture at the marvels of nature unfolded around, above, beneath us. I cannot tell you what we saw; you cou'd not depictu-e it to yourself if I could. I will only say that that one view from Table Rock would repay any one aaoui ney from the fat Chest corner of the world. All the landscapes I have ever scan— all the snow-pictures of the Alpe—all the coast-scenery of the Meditcrrarean—ell the lochs and moors of the Scatch Highlande—, ink into insignificance when compa-ed sith the iacompal Ale grandeur of Ni. - gara. It is not the Falls themselves alone that eau - e the magnificence of the scene; but the beauty of the lindscape, or which they ire Lhe centre, adds a huadredfold to their int i% sic value. But it is useless to tell how I wondered at the make y of 'he view from Table Rock ; you must go and a:and 'here yksts-- self, and then you will be amtz:d, as I W.i9, at the sorbing interest of the scene, end pander s I clld upon the marvellou force and volume of the waters that every second plunge down the heigh's before you, end wonder whence comes the inexhaustible supply, and whither goes, and how many a long roll of countless summers has looked on the same unvaried scene; end so you will wish, perhaps, to put down on paper some little memento of what you saw nd felt, and find, I dare say, as I do, that the attempt is ftC.le. But a distant view of the Falls gives but a feint idea of their solemn grandeur. To comprehend them in their awe inspiring sublimity, you must descend to the base of the cliff, and walk in amongst the spray, and under the curve of their flight down the precipice, and see the to power of their waters and the impotence of mva beside them : in fact, you must do as I did, mace the expedition to the Cave of the Winds, and then you v.PI have impressed upon your mind the dote il tf the more aw:ul proper.ies of Niagara, which a close acquaintance can alone reveal to you. The Cave lies underneath the American Fall; the trip is decidedly a petilous one, but it is the thing, and so, to be fashionable, I did it. The parry of adventu"ers consisted of eight, and a guide, a French Canadian. At a house by the foot of the F5ll we were provided wi,h a dress, or at least an apology for a costume, the very queerest, oddest looking, scantiest set of garments in which I have ever appeared in public. The su't consisted of a remark ably thin th - ealbo , a fin eel sYkt, a much tYnner an I much more three Jbsre prir of fl en eel drawers A pair of fl nanel socks or slippers, e-id a cord round the waist, the whole surmounted by an oilskin skall cap. 1 never felt more like the maniac who persisted in confining his street toilette to hatband and straps, or realised more painfully the contusing eff et of the penetrating glances of half a dozen young ladies, than on the occasion when our little party iu In Sian file threaded the gauntlet of the inqui silly° ones who had draw.i up to see us enter the cave. But a bold face and buoyant sprits were necessary for the work that lay before us. After a few words of counsel from the guide about not being frightened, but keeping straight ahead, and energetic assurances that we should not be drowned—though wa should be sure to Pney that would be the result, for every one, he said, thought so at firs►—we descended some steps that led tight down into the spray of the Fall, and at the bottom came upon a path or na...•ow ledge that wound along the cliff inside the a,chway of the Fall. From the moment that we left the stairs, we got i-ito a fine pelting rein that gradually increased in weight end volume till it bore dov. a upon our sku'l caps like hcil on a skylight. But the cave lay on the .urther side of the sheet of water, through wt ich we had to get as best we could. How that was I cannot tell you. The ga;de led the way into the steam and turmoil, bendi-ig h;mself nearly double to keep beating the spray irom his nast,:is, cud clinging on to the slimy rock, for the foothold was slipper./ a - td difficult. I believe I did the same, but I cannot say. The guide was immediate 4 lost to our v:ew; and all that I could hear amid the thunder of the cataract was an injunction to pu3h on when it came to the worst, for the illogical rcasuu that it was shorter to get beyond the sheet of water then to turn back. I ca-not toll you what a terti fying scene it was—how the waters r( ared aror tad how the stifling spray beat upon our faces so V 9 to drive all the breath out of our bodies—how the mind, caused by the falling mass of water, blew about in a thouserd blinding gusts (as if old /g)lus had untied every single sack, end let out the whole of his seminary for a t ;ener, - 1 holiday), dashing the rain into our faces end chests, or driving it against our backs and legs, or both ways at once with equal fury—or what I did, or what I saw. I don't kulw where, or why, or how I went. I cnly know that I went down to this watery hell and came up again uninjured, but very much out of breath and more Lightened, half blinded, more then half deafened, and three-quarters drowaed. The rest was comparatively simple—merely a scramble I :trough the mist over slimy po:ished rocks, a awi-n across a little pool, and a climb to a chair fixed on a lugged crag, when I found myself out in front of the Fall, with a splendid view of it looking upwards before me, and, the g.•eatest novelty of all, a circular rainbow all around me, at times too doubled. Five minutes' rest upon the crag, end we retraced our steps—for there was no other way back again to terra . . . firma —and then in again amongst the rrin and the din of waters, more pawing for breath, more at. uggling a i h the wanton gusts, more bewildering of the eye and ea-, more clinging for bare life to the s'inay rock, cud dm:libel:lag ui, the slippery staircase; and so we reached the 111010 . _ . pitable regions of the open sir, and again ren the gauntlet of the curious eyes that awaited our retutu to daylight— less nervous, perhaps, about their gcze alter What w e has faced below, but very much more deyjages a nd di•,repu table. I don't know that 1 should re to make the expe dition again, though I met one rather stout Canadian who told mo he went down regularly ht ieo a week under the idea it would reduce his fat—but Icm not by nature amphi• bious, and I consider the feat well worthy of the cntifieate with which the guide presents the visitors before they leave testify ing to the tact that they have 'passed through the Cave of the Winds.' THE DIVORCE COURT,—Sir J. P. Wilde, Judge of the Divorce Court, will sit on Thursday for the purpose of hearing motions. There are as many as 91 crigival eases in the list, besides 24 standing over by consent of the parties. S PORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALLS'—LAST EVENING. LIVERPOOL CUP. 10 to lon the field (offered) TILE DISREY. 6to 1 aget Liddington (taken freely) 100 to 6 agat Chattanooga (taken) Very little betting, members being occupied settling. SHIPPING -THIS DAY, LONDON, Nov. 1.--Wind this day at noon—North- Easterly; moderate bran and fine weather, but rather cloudy. KINSALE, Oct. N E.—Arrived—WiLliam, from Demerara for Liverpool. PLYMOUTH, Oct. 31.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Oxford, from Rangoon for Bremen—Goneral Ilavelock, from Ras. sein for Amsterdam. CARDIFF, Og. 30.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Albert the G3od, from Rio Janeiro. Tnoorr, Nov. I.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Margaret, from Matanzas. OFF PLYMOUTH, Oat. 31.—Wind S.W.—Arrived— Scindia, from Calingapatam• CLYDE, Oct. 31.—Wind S.E. — Arrived—Sahti, from Calcutta. (ITY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPIO GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, Oct. 31—Jan Freesnnn, from Petersbarr Niord, from Sundswall—Chri s ti na Maria, from Suderlaiain Recovery, from Cronstsdt—Naiad, from Danfzic. Arrived, N v. I—Whcatsheaf, from Caen—Prospect, Vichi, and Albana—all from Cronstadt—Uda, front Soder ham—Dansdale and Thomas Rowell, both from Dan'zic— Johnnes, from Rostock—Alice, from Dunkirk—Thetis, from:Sundswall—Sarpen, from G.fla—Swiftsure, from Havre. Sliled—Stratheden, for Sydney. DEAL, Tuesday limning. Anchored—Champion, from Bilbao, for London. FUNERAL OF Ma LEECH,--It has been arranged that the funeral of Mr Leech shall take place on Friday next at Mensal-green, where the hearse will arrive at half past one o'clock. Mr Leech's heart was in that cemetery, where he buried his first child in 1819. There also his friends have boon able to secure for hire a grave the next but one to that of his friend and schoolfellow, Thackeray. It may be right to mention that none will be invited to the funeral tont the members of his family and those who, like Dr Quin, Mr Hutchinson, Mr Bradbury, and Mr Evans, were more immediately connected with him. He had so large a circle of friends that it is impossible to invite all. COLONIAL BISHOPS ROUGHING IT.—We cannot resist the temptation of relating the following anecdote of the Apostolic Bishop of New Zealand, the scene of whose adventures lies here. He had persuaded the Bishop of New castle to start with him from Sidney on a missionary cruise in his little yacht to New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, the Loyalty, and other islands in his then extens:ve diocese. Like ourselves they put in at the Bay of Islands. The Bi shop of New Zealand wished to show his brother of New castle a little of the country, and for that purpose proposed to take him to a distant station on the other side of this very river. The ground was boggy, as we had found it, and the Bishop of Newcastle had never been accustomed to rough it in such a country as this. He could ride his 50 mile a day in his own diocese ; but his hardy brother always walked, and besides there were no horses to be had here. Always neat and spruce in his dress, looking " as it he had just come out of a bandbox," and afraid like a cat to wet his feet, he picked his way most carefully and delicately, unlike his brother bishop, who tramped on " through thick and through thin," till at last they came to the river side. The river was swollen with the heavy rain which had been pouring down in torrents for some days previous ly, and he of Newcastle looked awfully puzzled. wondering how they were to cross—neither bridge nor ford being visible in any direca Lion. He was still further puzzled, when he saw the Bishop of New Zealand, without a word, deliberately taking off shoes, leggings, stockings, and, last of all, his breeches. In reply to his brother Bishop's" Whatever next," he coolly collected hie various articles of dress, and stepped into the river up to his apron, calling out as he did so " Now then, Newcastle, off with your breeks, and follow your leader I" There was no help for it, as there was no other means of crossing the river, and the good Bishop invariably refused to be carried across by any of his Maori suite, on the ground that it was not right to treat such noble fellows as beasts of burden.— Once a Week. How GIRLS WILL NOT BE EDUCATED.—Take a town case. In a large, old-fashioned, but growing own, there seems to be no such thing as a school appro priate to the wants of the small shopkeeping and superior artizan class. * * Their houses are not well kept—the rooms are untidy and not even clean—the ways are un punctual—the meals aro badly cooked—the clothes are badly got up; and if there is a servant, there is endless turmoil with her. The mistress says the maid does not do her work; the maid finds the mistress unreasonable and harsh; and the master and the children feel that both the charges are true. There has been so much crying out, all over the country, for something which shall be to this order of society what our regulated and misted schools are to the labouring class, that many good citizens and sensible women bestir themselves to see what they can do among their neighbours. Of these, one lady has an experiment of her own. She fits up and opens a convenient house, in an easily accessible situation. settles in it a mistress of high qualifications, and a housekeeper who has risen through the ranks of domestic service to be fit for the present business. Under her, the girls are to learn household work in the best style,— cleaning, cooking, lay ing the table, and so on, while the proper school-learning is of a better quality than can be found anywhere else within reach. When the plans are got fairly to work, there will be a regular dinner provided for the smallest payment, for girls from a distance ; meantime, the lesson of laying the cloth, &c., goes on, for the sake of those who bring their dinners. This lesson is rather baulked, however, and the superiors are much vexed, by the sort of dinners disclosed, viz,, stale pastry, bought with money given at home for the girls to spend as they like. This phenomenon hastens the plan for the good hot dinner at the school—the roast leg of mutton or sirloin with vegetables, the Irish stew, and other good things, to be cooked by the girls in turn, in view of the table to be kept in the future home of each. But the girls have no mind for the roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, or tho stew, or anything else that sensible people like—they go on buying stale pastry on their way to school, and pay more for it than for the comfortable dinner at their command. In a little while difficulty arises about the indus trial part of the schooling. Strange to say, the mothers do not like that their daughters should learn to wash china properly, to clean furniture, rub up silver, and spread a table; and even the fathers object to any time being given to the art of cookery. On the whole, the very superior school learning is graciously fie oepted, if not appreciated; but the industrial element is fatal. The pawnbroker's daughter is absent on those days when it is her turn to sweep a room or make the bread ; the cabinetmaker's girls are always miesing on ironing days ; the linendraper's girls cannot come any more unless they are excused from all but book, and map, and pen work ; and thus the scheme is brought to an end, the school is closed, and the husbands and children of these unhappy pupils will have to go through the wretched old experience of domestic discomfort and wrangling, because the wife and mother does not know how to keep house.—lifise lifer tincau in the anthill Magazine. ANECDOTES OF ABERNETHY...—. A foshunter, somewhat stricken is years, consulted Abernethy. The man's digestion was not so good as it had been. Ile had lost his appetite; man delighted him not, nor woman either. "Sir," said Abernethy, "you drink a great deal." " Now," said the foehunter, when relating the interview, " now, supposing I do drink a great deal, what the devil was that to him ?" A literary gentleman called upon him. He, too, had a disordered stomach. "Of course you have," said Abernethy, "a halt-blind man could tell that by your nose." He used to have his wine of a mer chant whose name was Loyd. Ho one day called to pay for a pipe, and thrust a handful of papers containing fees into the wine merchant's hand. " Stop, stop, doctor," said Loyd. " There may be much more hero than you have to pay I" " Never mind, Loyd. I can't stop. You have them as I had them." He was very careless of money. He would receive a hasty fee, place the money on the table, and forget all about it. "Lead me not into temptation" is the holiest, because the humblest prayer. Some few of , his pupils were led into temptation, The loss o f money was so considerable that the surgeon determjned to ascertain who was the delinquent. Ile mark id his money, and appearing suddenly before his pupils, said, " Now, young gentlemen, be pleased to show me your purses," The thieves were discovered, and dis missed. He was ono day about to perform an operation a painful one. As was his custom he took care to see him self that all the required instruments were at hand, and in first-rate order. " I think everythiing is all right," said one of the assistants, " No, sir, everything is not all right," replied Mr Abernethy. " Get a napkin to conceal those terrifying instruments. The man need not be hor rified by the eight." Abernethy was offered a baronetcy by the Earl of Liverpool. He announced the pro pr sal to his fancily by saying, as they were about to sit down to dinner, "Lady Abernethy, permit me to hand you to your seat." Hs afterwards explained that he had been offered tho title, but, for cogent reaeons, decliuLd tho honour. The memory of Mr Abernethy wits singularly actiue and tenacious. A friend, of a poetical turn of mind, composed some verses complimentary of Mrs Aber- nethy, which he recited after dinner on her natal day. Abernethy listened attentively, and immediately the reading terminated exclaimed, " Come, that is a good joke to attempt to pass those verses oir os your own original compositiuu. I kuuw tlluui by hunt;" L:ud Abernethy at once repeated thou without of A word. Tho "poet" was astounded, mystithd, angry 1 The amused host explained, and offered to repeat verbatint any piece of ahJut the 61110 length which any one in the company would. recite, --- Ecec - iztrio icrsonages, .liuLcil; LL ,D. 101 i 1011